European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment last week s top 10 videocassette rentals based on billboards Survey of retail rentals 1 Good fellas Warner Home video 2 kindergarten cop Mca Universal Home video3 Edward scissor hands Fox video 4 Green card Touchstone Home video5 reversal of Fortune Warner Home video .6 the drifters Hob video7 postcards from the Edge Ria Columbia pictures Home video8 mermaids Orion Home video9 the Rookie Warner Home video 10 predator 2 Folvi Deothes top 10 to shows in America for july 1512. According to the a c. Nielsen co year to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses 1 2 60 minutes lbs 2 32 20-20 Abc 3 1 cheers Abc 4 32 a cry for help Tracy Thurman Story Abc 5 11 unsolved mysteries Abc 6 44 Stephen King s Golden year subs. 6 4 Roseann Abc 8 7 designing women lbs 9 10 empty nest Abc 10 15 family matters Abc Tri Star i Ciuros inc. Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant find themselves falling in love in the comedy . Story. \ 11 10 i \ 1iwsby Jack e. Wilkinson United press International . Story. Rated pg-13.1991. Live Home video. Inside jokes get a lot of outside laughs in Steve Martins obviously affectionate blend of satire and fantasy on the fun and foibles of trendy . Land. Handled right there a a lot of merriment in a open season on the freeway a where even the Little old lady from Pasadena packs a Rod with signs that advertise a Libra parking Only or a huh like walk a where restaurant patrons ounce about but pay Little heed to the ongoing earthquake and muggers wait in line for the next available victim a Chi in a Bob. Ill be your robber Star writer Martin plays a bored to Weatherman who experiences a series of miracles with help from a magical freeway sign culminating in the meeting of the girl of his dreams a Chilly but charming British reporter Victoria Tennant. Now for the first time there a the Promise of a Clear sailing instead of a most foggy future. Martin and Tennant married in real life make a terrific screen couple. But even they sometimes Are upstaged by the unbundled Energy of Sarah Jessica Parker who plays a bouncy Beach Bunny. Hamlet. Rated pm. 1990. Warner Home video. Director Franco Zeffirelli and his unlikely Star Mel Gibson have forged a visually arresting atmospheric treat of prose and passion a a rhapsody of words a As Shakespeare put it in this retelling of his familiar Story of the troubled danish Prince. Zeffirelli who turned out an excellent 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet has produced another Classy rendition that finds its Mark scoring a a hit a very palpable hit a befitting line borrowed from the dueling scene. Even those who find the Bard hard to take might Cotton to the Way mad Max is transformed into mad Dane Bobbing on a a sea of Gibson an old hand at playing on the Edge characters gives a pleasantly surprising Bravura performance intense but restrained As the melancholy Hamlet beset by a the slings and arrows of outrageous Fortune a driven to the Brink by his fathers murder and his mothers sudden remarriage to his Uncle whom he suspects is the killer. Glenn close shines brightly As his Mother Alan Bates is the usurping King Claudius Paul Scofield is the ghost of hamlets father and childlike Helena Bonham Carter is the tragic Ophelia. To refocus a Hamlet quote Quot what a piece of work a Robin Hood. Rated g. 1973. Walt Disney Home video. The Oft told tale about the legendary outlaw who took from the Rich and gave to the poor Walt Disney style. This 1973 animated kids classic returns with its Charm and derring do intact. Robin who a fittingly portrayed As a swashbuckling Fox and his sidekick Little John a big Bear plot one daring scheme after another against the greedy Prince John and his cruel cohorts one of whom is a Snake called sir Hiss. The animation music and storytelling Are first rate the sort of achievement that time never dulls. A among those doing voices Brian Bedford is Robin Peter Ustinov is Prince John Phil Harris is Little John and Andy Devine is Friar 16 a sunday july 28, 1991
